Navigate Professional Challenges with Network Intelligence Our educational system trains us to memorize facts stored in textbooks and then regurgitate them on an exam. Better schools will “teach you how to learn,” but it’s still not learning by doing, and it’s still not a particularly social undertaking. You study for a test and you take…
Right now, your network is opening and closing certain doors that shape your future — sometimes without your even knowing it. The people who exert this influence on your life represent three distinct types of relationships that matter in a professional context. Professional Allies These are your friends who serve as important career sounding boards/advisors/advocates.…
Despite the fact that nothing important in life is done alone, we live in a hero-obsessed culture. If you survey the population, asking people how they think a company like Tesla skyrocketed to prominence, you’ll probably hear all about Elon Musk but not a peep about the team he built around him, which was essential…
In today’s world, the rules change — fast. Unexpected things happen: Strange shifts you couldn’t have imagined. Competition comes out of nowhere. Technologies disrupt the playing field. Jobs, even entire industries, disappear. The very fabric of the game changes, and whole new careers are born. In the early 2000s, if you told people that in…
Entrepreneurs must continually make choices in situations where they don’t have all the information they need. They have to make choices into the fog of the unknown. To meet this constant uncertainty, entrepreneurs use action-based trial and error to test specific hypotheses. They place small bets and respond to the outcomes. To grow and change…